pykars

Noun

pykar (plural pykars)

1. (British, India, South-Asia) A broker dealing directly with a manufacturer of goods.
   • There were also smaller dealers, known by the names of Pykars, resident throughout the country at large who made purchases and prepared the opium in their houses from 10 to 50 maunds, but the commodity thus received from the Pykars was never genuine.1892, Sir George Watt, A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India